Re: On a lighter note . . .

April 14, 2006

ALL the time, Alyce!!!

Everyone in the theatre world, art world, medical world, and horse

world,

all know ME, but I sure do not know THEM!

AUGH!!!

However, it most certainly has its' advantages too, like if you need to

return something to a store for instance, or if the bank teller has screwed

up, WE are REMEMBERED, thus WE are taken care of in such circumstances! So

there actually IS a good side to all our horrors now

and then!!!.........smiles

Adelaide

In a message dated 4/14/06 11:13:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

afwtexas@... writes:

Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial question: Do

you find that people remember you much more than you remember them?

Example: I work in the Jefferson County Courthouse, one of about 1300

County employees . . . all of whom seem to know who I am - by name, not just as

" the dwarf lady in Purchasing. " This is so embarassing! Someone comes up and

says, " Hi, Alyce! " and launches into a conversation, while I'm thinking,

" Have I ever met this person? Is this someone I should actually remember, or

someone who has just heard who I am and therefore for some reason thinks I know

who the heck they are??? "

It's really not fair! I struggle to remember names, etc., and other people

have an easy way to remember me. Not fair at all!

Do other LPs have this happen?

Alyce :-)

April 14, 2006

when i was in high school of about 1500 kids EVERYONE knew who i was and i

would see some of these people in a store and they would stop and talk to me

and in my head i'm like who the heck are you??? i feel bad sometimes because

i'm already terrible with remembering names. when i'm with my mom or someone

they ask me when i'm done talking who i was talking to and i'm " i have no

idea but i think it was someone from school " so yes even people whom i've only

met once they remember me. i volunteer at a hospital in a specialty clinic

and i had taken a year off and when some of the kids came back while i was

still out they asked the other playroom person where the little person

volunteer

was. so even kids don't forget those kinds of things.

April 14, 2006

I've had people remember me from kindergarten, and I just turned 50.

I have the same problem as you do at work, compounded by the fact that

there is a woman in another department, housed in another building,

who is in an electric wheelchair, who I get confused with. Luckily

people are ignorant enough to point out that I look like I am doing

sooooo much better, which clues me into the fact that they mean her.

I've stopped blaming myself for not remembering these folks, way too

many times I've learned that they know of me, someone has pointed me

out on campus or they've read about me in an in-house newsletter

profile. Heck, I confuse some of them also.

It's hard to blend in

>

> Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial

question: Do you find that people remember you much more than you

remember them?

>

> Example: I work in the Jefferson County Courthouse, one of about

1300 County employees . . . all of whom seem to know who I am - by

name, not just as " the dwarf lady in Purchasing. " This is so

embarassing! Someone comes up and says, " Hi, Alyce! " and launches

into a conversation, while I'm thinking, " Have I ever met this person?

Is this someone I should actually remember, or someone who has just

heard who I am and therefore for some reason thinks I know who the

heck they are??? "

>

> It's really not fair! I struggle to remember names, etc., and other

people have an easy way to remember me. Not fair at all!

>

> Do other LPs have this happen?

>

> Alyce :-)

>

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April 14, 2006

Oh yes.

That is so annoying.

But I always get more annoyed that I'm often called by another dwarf's name,

because, of course, we all look alike!

-marty (the lady one)

>>> afwtexas@... 04/14/06 11:11 AM >>>

Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial question: Do you

find that people remember you much more than you remember them?

Example: I work in the Jefferson County Courthouse, one of about 1300 County

employees . . . all of whom seem to know who I am - by name, not just as " the

dwarf lady in Purchasing. " This is so embarassing! Someone comes up and says,

" Hi, Alyce! " and launches into a conversation, while I'm thinking, " Have I ever

met this person? Is this someone I should actually remember, or someone who has

just heard who I am and therefore for some reason thinks I know who the heck

they are??? "

It's really not fair! I struggle to remember names, etc., and other people have

an easy way to remember me. Not fair at all!

Do other LPs have this happen?

Alyce :-)

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April 14, 2006

I always say this gives me an advantage, especially when it comes to

attending somewhat " mandatory " events such as our office X-mas

party. All I have to do is make one general swing around the room,

then split. Chances are most people will notice that I was there!

Cara

>

> Oh yes.

> That is so annoying.

>

> But I always get more annoyed that I'm often called by another

dwarf's name, because, of course, we all look alike!

>

> -marty (the lady one)

>

> >>> afwtexas@... 04/14/06 11:11 AM >>>

> Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial

question: Do you find that people remember you much more than you

remember them?

>

> Example: I work in the Jefferson County Courthouse, one of about

1300 County employees . . . all of whom seem to know who I am - by

name, not just as " the dwarf lady in Purchasing. " This is so

embarassing! Someone comes up and says, " Hi, Alyce! " and launches

into a conversation, while I'm thinking, " Have I ever met this

person? Is this someone I should actually remember, or someone who

has just heard who I am and therefore for some reason thinks I know

who the heck they are??? "

>

> It's really not fair! I struggle to remember names, etc., and

other people have an easy way to remember me. Not fair at all!

>

> Do other LPs have this happen?

>

> Alyce :-)

>

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April 14, 2006

Hmmm, an idea for a business opportunity:

" Rent a dwarf double " for those events we have to attend as a part of

our business life. Our double can show up, do a swing of the room (as

Cara said) and we can be off at a nice dinner instead.

Personally all I have to do is check with Ina (the woman who I'm

mistaken for at work) and if she's going that means we've both

attended

> >

> > Oh yes.

> > That is so annoying.

> >

> > But I always get more annoyed that I'm often called by another

> dwarf's name, because, of course, we all look alike!

> >

> > -marty (the lady one)

> >

> > >>> afwtexas@ 04/14/06 11:11 AM >>>

> > Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial

> question: Do you find that people remember you much more than you

> remember them?

April 14, 2006

haha Yes, that happens to me ALL the time. I came from a small town of 5,000

people and it seemed like the entire town knew me, but obviously I couldn't

keep up with all of their names!

Amy

On a lighter note . . .

Okay, here's a question on (hopefully) a less controversial question: Do

you find that people remember you much more than you remember them?

Example: I work in the Jefferson County Courthouse, one of about 1300

County employees . . . all of whom seem to know who I am - by name, not just

as " the dwarf lady in Purchasing. " This is so embarassing! Someone comes

up and says, " Hi, Alyce! " and launches into a conversation, while I'm

thinking, " Have I ever met this person? Is this someone I should actually

remember, or someone who has just heard who I am and therefore for some

reason thinks I know who the heck they are??? "

It's really not fair! I struggle to remember names, etc., and other people

have an easy way to remember me. Not fair at all!

Do other LPs have this happen?

Alyce :-)

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April 14, 2006

Me too and I live in a town of 30,000. Perhaps that's because I hang

out at my town's coffee's hot spot a lot, where pretty much everyone

either knows me personally by name or they do by sight, but it still

happens. It even happened when I lived in rural New York in a town

with the population of 600! I got called this one guy's name over and

over again, and over and over again, I would say, " Nope, I'm not

him. " Of course, a few would say back, " Well, you sure could be his

twin then. " Finally, " I said to myself that's it, I'm hunting this

little guy down! " haha Cuz if he and I look sooo alike I wanna see

that personally. And it was easy as I had his first name and the town

he supposedly lived in which wasn't too far from me n e way. So I

went and met him. And he was a head shorter than me or more, red hair

with freckles and Pseudo-Achon; none of his facial or his dwarf

characteristics even came close to matching mine! Oh well, I guess in

the minds of a few ap's we do all look alike?

It's funny too we're talking about this as last nite I was kidding

with some teens at the coffee shop who think my being a dwarf is

coooool precisely because I am well known and that's when I

say, " Yeah, but I wish I had it like you. I wish I could be

anonymous, without a single stare, even if it's not a bad or

derogoraty stare. Just to go in a store and simply blend in, " and

it's then when some say, " Yeah, we know whatcha mean, but people

remember and like you for you too:). " And it makes me melt when they

say that:).

I also kid back and say that's why you will never ever see an LP

on " America's Most Wanted " TV show, cuz once you do, their phones

would ring off the hook with sooo many calls from viewers saying, " I

know that little guy! H*ck, I even know his name, where he lives, his

phone number, even his social security number if you need that too! "

lol However, sadly, and I don't know if any remember this, but AMW

did feature an lp once as a murder victim where they were looking for

the perps who did him in:(.

~grady

April 14, 2006

Oh my yes! It is the running gag in my community! People always know me

and I have never seen them before. I am fairly active in the community and

so people see me at church and various conventions and stuff and then later

on (sometimes years later) when we are introduced they act as if they have

always known me. It is really quite funny at times and then other times

rather annoying. Believe me there is no anonymity for me! except when I go

to an LPA function!

Danette Baker

Spokane, WA

scraps-of-joy@...

My disability is not a handicap

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I'll be standing in the gap for you

Just remember someone, somewhere

Is praying for you

Calling out your name

Praying for your strength

I'll be standing in the gap for you

~ Babbie Mason ~

-- On a lighter note . . .